Submitted by
Shelby Butler

 

Name: Halsey Canfield BOYD Birth: 31 AUG 1831 in Trenton,New Jersey  Death: 10 SEP 1897  Burial: Prot. Cem., Stacyville, Ia    Note: Actual Inscription "H.C. Boyd b. Aug 31, 1831 d. Jul. 16, 1897 C. W. Vet" Prot. Cem. Stacyville.

Halsey Canfield Boyd was born August 31st, 1831, in Stacyville*, Mitchell County, Iowa. In 1856, he, along with about 11 other families, founded the township of Union, in Mitchell County. According to county records (which I have yet to find) he purchased land on the SE quarter of section 15-100-17 on March 2nd, 1857. According to the 1911 Mitchell county Atlas, the log cabin he built was then the oldest building in Union Township. The cabin was used as a residence until 1909 when a new house was built by Benjamin J. Woolworth. In the atlas is a photograph of the cabin as it stood in 1911.

On August 13, 1862, he enlisted in the Iowa 27th Infantry, Company K, with the rank of Private. His Infantry was involved in 29 battles, including Gettysburg. He was apparently not injured during the Civil War. He was mustered out of Clinton, Iowa on August 8th, 1865. According to "Civil War Muster Rolls" he was in Company K.

Found In Stacyville (St. Acyville), Mitchell County, Iowa, in 1860 census. Found in Union, Mitchell County, Iowa in 1870 census. He is the only Boyd in Mitchell County census from 1838 to 1870. These census records cover the following:

1838 Territorial Census
1840 Federal Census Index
1840 Pensioners List
1841-49 Tax Lists
1850 Federal Census Index
1851 State Census Index
1852 State Census Index
1860 Federal Census Index
1870 Federal Census Index

• Married: 21 MAR 1854 in West Amwell, Hunterdon County, New Jersey
   

1. Wilson G. BOYD b: 9 DEC 1854 in Trenton, New Jersey
2. Abraham A BOYD b: 18 JUN 1866 in Mitchell Co,I owa
3. Orrin W. BOYD b: 23 JUL 1872 in Mitchell Co, Iowa
4. Statira C. BOYD adopted b: 9 FEB 1878 in Mitchell Co., Iowa